Masses in India cannot imagine Indian films without songs. For them it hardly matters whether it is bollywood or other regional movie industry. Though its presence is significant in recent times in commercial context, its roots go to the ancient and historic era as well. Poetry was the major contributor in then time entertainment. In fact, in every kingdom, one honoured poet was the part of King’s council for general meetings. Even for general public, there used to happen street shows where story was explained in poetry. The reason for this is poetry conveys message effectively with few words as compared to story itself. The same thought was reflected in our greatest epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. After it, the tradition of “Sangeet natak” came and same legacy continued in modern version of entertainment, i.e. movies.
But there are so many differences in these two types poetry inclusion in entertainment. Obviously old is gold and that is true because poetry or songs of that era really conveyed the message which was well understood by those people. Even the content was related to day to day life matters of aam aadmi. Songs had meaning that time. But what do we observe today is totally different from its natural essence. The major difference is, today it became too commercial to digest. I accept that poetry is still alive in its natural form but what about its reach to the common man? Today’s poet write good but how many of us really read and appreciate that? Hardly few!! And this does not mean we should blame public. The world is fast today so the taste of the society has changed a lot. Today the mode of entertainment is movies rather than reading poetry. People prefer to listen movie and album songs because of there easy availability.
But here also the change is not satisfactory. The reason is large number of quality less songs in movies. In fact, 75% movies are waste for many but still they can have good songs and this is what is missing. The content of songs nowhere resembles to what is should be. Many songs are forcefully included in storyline and their music is altogether a different story!
Thanks to the people like Gulzar sahab and Javed Akhtar, their many songs are worth to listen. But their numbers are very few as compared to the whole. The lyricists and movies makers should realise that quality matters and not the quantity. Or else they should go without songs which anyways don’t contribute to the film. At least such movies can be finished earlier as well with lesser expenditure and even people can enjoy such movies without wasting their entertainment time. Because for them, it’s better to watch a complete story without hustle of pathetic songs and that is also within time. What else we want, everything within time with full entertainment. Or my honest advice to all, please read quality poetry, it is worth.
But there are so many differences in these two types poetry inclusion in entertainment. Obviously old is gold and that is true because poetry or songs of that era really conveyed the message which was well understood by those people. Even the content was related to day to day life matters of aam aadmi. Songs had meaning that time. But what do we observe today is totally different from its natural essence. The major difference is, today it became too commercial to digest. I accept that poetry is still alive in its natural form but what about its reach to the common man? Today’s poet write good but how many of us really read and appreciate that? Hardly few!! And this does not mean we should blame public. The world is fast today so the taste of the society has changed a lot. Today the mode of entertainment is movies rather than reading poetry. People prefer to listen movie and album songs because of there easy availability.
But here also the change is not satisfactory. The reason is large number of quality less songs in movies. In fact, 75% movies are waste for many but still they can have good songs and this is what is missing. The content of songs nowhere resembles to what is should be. Many songs are forcefully included in storyline and their music is altogether a different story!
Thanks to the people like Gulzar sahab and Javed Akhtar, their many songs are worth to listen. But their numbers are very few as compared to the whole. The lyricists and movies makers should realise that quality matters and not the quantity. Or else they should go without songs which anyways don’t contribute to the film. At least such movies can be finished earlier as well with lesser expenditure and even people can enjoy such movies without wasting their entertainment time. Because for them, it’s better to watch a complete story without hustle of pathetic songs and that is also within time. What else we want, everything within time with full entertainment. Or my honest advice to all, please read quality poetry, it is worth.
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